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Amendment prohibits the use of funds to implement procedures that do not give small business concerns owned and controlled by veterans any preference to obtaining the contracts under the Small Business Act.

At the end of the bill (before the short title) insert the following: SEC.__. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide disability compensation under chapter 11 of title 38 ***.

Amendment prohibits the use of funds to enforce section 526 of the Energy Independence and Security Act which bans Federal agencies from entering into contracts for procurement of alternative fuel sources unless the "lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions" are less than or equal to such emissions from conventional petroleum sources.

06/13/11 Mr. Culberson raised a point of order against the Amash amendment (A007). Mr. Culberson stated that the amendment seeks to change existing law and constitutes legislation in an appropriation bill. The Chair sustained the point of order.

Amendment prohibits the use of funds in the bill to declare as excess to the needs of the Department of Veterans Affairs or otherwise take any action to exchange, trade, auction, transfer, or otherwise dispose of, or reduce the acreage of, Federal land and improvements at the St. Albans VA campus in New York.

Amendment fences $20 million of the funds in the bill for suicide prevention and outreach for veterans; provides a reduction in wait times for mental health services; increases research funding by $22 million offset by a similar amount reduction in general administration funding; and sets aside $100,000 for a study of VA historic properties.